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Ricardo Primi
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Psychologist, Associate Professor at Universidade São Francisco (USF), Brazil. Lead scientist of EduLab21 at the Ayrton Senna Institute (IAS)
Education
University of São Paulo
Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and Human Development
São Paulo, Brazil
1998
Thesis: Development of a computerized test for the assessment of the analytical thinking.
Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas
M.S. in Psychology
Campinas, Brazil
1992
Thesis: Intelligence, Information Processing and Gestalt Theory: An Experimental Study.
Professional Experience
Associate Professor
University of São Francisco (USF), Graduate Program in Psychology (Psychological and Educational Assessment).
Campinas, Brazil
1995-current
- Mentored 83 doctoral, postdoctoral, and master’s students.
- Tough courses in psychometrics and quantitative methods and R programing.
- Developed cutting-edge research proposals funded by government agencies for the development of new assessment tools of intelligence and social and emotional skills.
Lead Research Scientist
EduLab21, Ayrton Senna Institute
São Paulo, Brazil
2015 - current
- Developed assessment instruments for measuring social and emotional skills, critical and creative thinking for large-scale testing programs in Brazil
- Developed dashboards to share results with school administrators and policy makers
- Advised on scientific governing board.
- Conducted psychometric analyses for the Socio-Emotional Skills Study of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Visiting Research Scholar
Stanford University, Lemann Center Graduate School of Education University of California at Berkeley, Institute of Personality and Social Research – IPSR
CA, USA
2019-2020
- Developed research project on social and emotional skills and learning
- Published scientific papers in high tear journals.
Teaching Experience
Undergraduate courses.
Psychological Assessment, Personality Assessment, Intelligence Assessment, Psychometrics, Statistical Methods, Supervised Bachelor final projects.
Campinas, Brazil
2001 - present
Graduate Courses.
Data Science applied to Psychometrics, Item Response Theory, Structural Equation Modeling, Statistics for Human Science, Research Seminar, Scientific Writing.
Campinas, Brazil
2001 - present
Selected Publications
Divergent productions of metaphors: Combining Many-Facet Rasch measurement and cognitive psychology in the assessment of creativity..
Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts, 8, 461–474. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0038055
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2014
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Developing a fluid intelligence scale through a combination of Rasch modeling and cognitive psychology.
Psychological Assessment, 26, 774–788. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0036712
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2014
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Fluid intelligence as a predictor of learning: A longitudinal multilevel approach applied to math.
Learning and Individual Differences, 26, 20, 446–451. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2010.05.001
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2010
Primi R., Ferrão, M. E., & Almeida, L. S.
Complexity of geometric inductive reasoning tasks Contribution to the understanding of fluid intelligence..
Intelligence, 30(1), 41–70. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0160-2896(01)00067-8
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2001
Primi R.